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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>March 28, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[sure, for what time zone is the meeting?]<br>
<b>Joe Biden invites 40 world leaders to virtual summit on climate
crisis</b><br>
Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin among invitees as US heralds return to
forefront of climate fight<br>
Agence France-Presse - Fri 26 Mar 2021 22.09 EDT<br>
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Joe Biden has invited 40 world leaders to a virtual summit on the
climate crisis, the White House said in a statement on Friday.<br>
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Heads of state, including Xi Jinping of China and Russia’s Vladimir
Putin, have been asked to attend the two-day meeting meant to mark
Washington’s return to the front lines of the fight against
human-caused climate change, after Donald Trump disengaged from the
process.<br>
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“They know they’re invited,” Biden said of Xi and Putin. “But I
haven’t spoken to either one of them yet.”<br>
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The start of the summit on 22 April coincides with Earth Day, and it
will come ahead of a major UN meeting on the crisis, scheduled for
November in Glasgow, Scotland.<br>
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Biden’s event is being staged entirely online due to the coronavirus
pandemic.<br>
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The president kept his campaign pledge to rejoin the Paris climate
agreement on his first day in the White House, after Trump pulled
out of the deal.<br>
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The return of the world’s largest economy and second-largest emitter
of carbon dioxide became effective on 19 February and means almost
all countries are now parties to the agreement signed in 2015.<br>
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By the time of the summit, the US will have announced “an ambitious
2030 emissions target”, according to a White House statement, and it
will encourage others to boost their own goals under the Paris
agreement.<br>
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“The summit will also highlight examples of how enhanced climate
ambition will create good-paying jobs, advance innovative
technologies, and help vulnerable countries adapt to climate
impacts,” the White House said in a statement.<br>
<br>
The US has invited the leaders of the Major Economies Forum on
Energy and Climate, which includes the 17 countries responsible for
about 80% of global emissions and GDP, as well as heads of countries
that are especially vulnerable to climate impacts or are
demonstrating strong climate leadership.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/26/joe-biden-climate-change-virtual-summit">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/26/joe-biden-climate-change-virtual-summit</a><br>
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[Opinion manipulation tactics] <b><br>
</b><b>Amy Westervelt: Fossil Fuel's Target Audience for
Disinformation</b><br>
Mar 26, 2021<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSOtud9ocI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSOtud9ocI</a><br>
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[no transmission in transit]<br>
<b>Riders Are Abandoning Buses and Trains. That’s a Problem for
Climate Change.</b><br>
Public transit offers a simple way for cities to lower greenhouse
gas emissions, but the pandemic has pushed ridership, and revenue,
off a cliff in many big systems.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/climate/buses-trains-ridership-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/climate/buses-trains-ridership-climate-change.html</a><br>
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[Extinction Rebellion video]<br>
<b>XR DE: Transformations - For People and The Planet | Extinction
Rebellion UK</b><br>
Mar 26, 2021<br>
Extinction Rebellion<br>
From XR Germany:<br>
It's not enough to resist the systems that destroy our planet. To
build something new, let's look at the diverse alternatives in
theory and especially in practice. They give life to systemic
change!<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ4EJ8a3orE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ4EJ8a3orE</a><br>
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[Texas power companies ]<br>
<b>Chris Tomlinson: Why Texans Have Seen Huge Power Bills Following
Blackout</b><br>
Mar 18, 2021<br>
greenmanbucket<br>
Chris Tomlinson is an energy writer for the Houston Chronicle<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwUG4wM0J8Y">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwUG4wM0J8Y</a><br>
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[Grand Dame of Global Warming Reporting]<br>
<b>Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert review – the path to
catastrophe</b><br>
Ben Ehrenreich - Fri 26 Mar 2021 <br>
A damning survey, drawing on skilful and subtle reporting, that
tracks the spiralling absurdity of human attempts to control nature
with technology<br>
<br>
Being alive these days means enduring a strange and perhaps
historically unique sense of claustrophobia. If you’re paying
attention – and if you’ve read Elizabeth Kolbert’s previous books on
climate and the ongoing mass extinction – you know that the Earth,
its atmosphere, and its oceans are transforming in ways that will
mean unimaginable hardships for humans and for billions of other
living beings. You also know that almost everything you might do
will belch out carbon emissions that will blow us farther down the
path to catastrophe. It’s like being stuck in a tunnel and, no
matter which direction you attempt to dig, only going deeper.<br>
<br>
Kolbert’s most recent book evokes another disquieting sensation, a
novel breed of vertigo. In Under a White Sky, she tracks the
spiralling absurdity of human attempts to control nature with
technology. Grand, Promethean interventions of the sort of which
modernity’s boosters were once so proud – a river’s flow reversed to
carry waste to a more convenient location, an aquifer tapped to grow
alfalfa in the desert, coal and oil extracted from great depths and
burned to move machines – spawn unforeseen disasters. Ever grander
interventions ensue, which bring fresh calamities, which require
still cleverer interventions. By the end of the book, as the zany
twists into the full-on apocalyptic, you are left reeling, with
little hope to spare.<br>
<br>
Kolbert’s reporting is, as always, skilful and subtle. She plays a
wry and melancholy Virgil touring varied sterile hells, savouring
ironies even when they hurt. She jets across continents, visiting
laboratories and warehouse-sized scale models of damaged ecosystems
through which scientists traipse like giants. In Chicago, more than
a century after the dredging of a canal – “the biggest public works
project of its time” – accidentally “upended the hydrology of
roughly two-thirds of the United States”, engineers struggle to
contain the spread of voracious species of carp introduced to gobble
propeller-tangling weeds. Their solution: to electrify the water.<br>
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In Louisiana, Kolbert visits Plaquemines Parish, one of “the fastest
disappearing places on earth”, a distinction won thanks to
flood-control efforts that channel Mississippi river sediment
straight into the Gulf of Mexico, preventing coastal lands from
renewing themselves. Government engineers now pump mud through miles
of pipeline to craft artificial marshlands that will be almost
immediately washed away. In Australia, she interviews biologists
engaged in a desperate effort at “assisted evolution”, attempting to
genetically engineer corals that will survive warmer, more acidic
seas as the Greater Barrier Reef dies around them.<br>
Most disturbingly, she explores the “negative emissions
technologies” designed to stave off global warming. The most
ambitious schemes aim to deflect solar heat by spraying reflective
particles into the stratosphere, which may damage the ozone layer,
cause drought and acid rain, and bleach all blue from the sky. It
also might not work. Even if it does, it will be subject to
alarmingly diminishing returns: if 100,000 tons of sulfites will
have to be dispersed in the programme’s first year, 10 years in it
would take a million tons to produce the same effect. Should the
effort ever be interrupted, all the deferred warming would “suddenly
manifest itself”, Kolbert writes, “like opening a globe-sized oven
door”. This, she suggests with deep ambivalence, may be our only
hope.<br>
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The vortex in which humankind appears to be caught acquires here a
tragic inevitability. The cascading crises we face are “byproducts
of our species’ success”. Wisdom might suggest a different path, but
“we are stepped in so far, return seems impracticable”. As horrific
as all this may be, Kolbert’s poise is reassuring. Her objective
distance never cracks; her ability to pull pained amusement from yet
“another Anthropocene irony” seldom falters. This composure, though,
is only sustainable because she avoids asking certain glaring
questions. Who profited from the technologies that created these
crises? Who profits now? And who is losing? Is it meaningful to
speak of “our species’ success” when so many millions experienced
modernity’s spread as something more like devastating loss?<br>
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The answers are here if you look for them. The first river-taming
levees in New Orleans, Kolbert notes in passing, were built on the
orders of French colonists by enslaved African labourers. The
massive extermination of wildlife that swept North America in the
19th century unfolded thanks to “the advent of technologies like the
railroad and the repeating rifle”, which were not value-neutral
innovations but tools of finance capital and colonial expansion.
Kolbert visits Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana, the few remaining
inhabitants of which are descendants of exiled indigenous tribes who
lived in peaceful isolation until their land began literally to
disappear. They “had no say in the dredging of the oil channels”
that ate away at their homes, Kolbert writes. “They’d been excluded
from the efforts to control the Mississippi, and now that new forms
of control were being imposed to counter the old, they were being
excluded from those too.”<br>
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Kolbert draws no conclusions from this unfortunate episode. Under a
White Sky remains a story about technology in which power and
violence barely figure. But the moment you take pains to acknowledge
the social web from which technological questions can never be
separated, the claustrophobia and vertigo shift to horror, and to
rage. What you see is not a tragicomic, inexorable process in which
humankind is regrettably trapped, but an asymmetrical network of
exploitation that has overtaken the planet like an ecocidal virus,
extending out from Europe over three centuries and ensnaring every
continent so that a few can profit while most are left to sink.<br>
<br>
Little wonder then that when Kolbert asks what alternative there is
to this vortex of disaster, she, like her subjects, can imagine only
additional technological fixes. The possibility of social change has
been excluded from the start.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/26/under-a-white-sky-by-elizabeth-kolbert-review-the-path-to-catastrophe">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/26/under-a-white-sky-by-elizabeth-kolbert-review-the-path-to-catastrophe</a><br>
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[time to regulate cloud seeding?]<br>
<b>The Science of Making Rain</b><br>
Feb 20, 2021<br>
Sabine Hossenfelder<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDxaDmjGVGY&t=18s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDxaDmjGVGY&t=18s</a><br>
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[called ENMOD]<br>
<b>Environmental Modification Convention</b><br>
The Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD), formally the
Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use
of Environmental Modification Techniques is an international treaty
prohibiting the military or other hostile use of environmental
modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe
effects. It opened for signature on 18 May 1977 in Geneva and
entered into force on 5 October 1978.<br>
<br>
The Convention bans weather warfare, which is the use of weather
modification techniques for the purposes of inducing damage or
destruction. The Convention on Biological Diversity of 2010 would
also ban some forms of weather modification or geoengineering.[2]<br>
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Many states do not regard this as a complete ban on the use of
herbicides in warfare, such as Agent Orange, but it does require
case-by-case consideration.[3]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Modification_Convention">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Modification_Convention</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.un.org/disarmament/publications/library/enmod">https://www.un.org/disarmament/publications/library/enmod</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/unoda-web/documents/library/conf/ENMOD-CONF-11-1.pdf">https://s3.amazonaws.com/unoda-web/documents/library/conf/ENMOD-CONF-11-1.pdf</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://2009-2017.state.gov/t/isn/4783.htm">https://2009-2017.state.gov/t/isn/4783.htm</a><br>
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[Not sure I agree. Why?]<br>
<b>Report: It’s time for the U.S. to research solar geoengineering</b><br>
We might never do solar geoengineering. But government science
advisers say studying it is better than flying blind.<br>
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But even if global leaders acted to cut emissions at that breakneck
pace — which none currently has — many of those catastrophic
outcomes could still occur. The science of human-caused climate
change is unequivocal, but the science of projecting how bad things
will get, how quickly, is soaked in uncertainty...<br>
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It’s possible that the dangers will reach a critical juncture where
the world may want to consider another tool with the potential to
save millions of lives: solar geoengineering, also described by
scientists with the more careful and lengthy phrase “climate
intervention strategies that reflect sunlight to cool the earth.”<br>
<br>
Deliberately changing the atmosphere to try to cool down the planet
is deeply uncomfortable to think about, and many would prefer that
no one did. But for the past two years, a committee of 16 people
with various expertise in the physical sciences, economics, policy,
law, and ethics have been sitting with that discomfort as they met
regularly to develop an American research agenda for this nascent
and highly controversial field of science. <br>
<br>
The result of those many hours of discussion and debate is a more
than 300-page guide for the U.S. government to spend at least $100
million on a new solar geoengineering research program. It was
released on Thursday by the National Academies of Science,
Engineering, and Medicine, a nonprofit that acts as an independent
advisor to the federal government...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://grist.org/article/report-its-time-for-the-u-s-to-research-solar-geoengineering/">https://grist.org/article/report-its-time-for-the-u-s-to-research-solar-geoengineering/</a><br>
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[oh sure, more study is OK]<br>
<b>Reflecting Sunlight: Recommendations for Solar Geoengineering
Research and Research Governance (2021)</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nap.edu/read/25762/chapter/1">https://www.nap.edu/read/25762/chapter/1</a><br>
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[Rainforest collapse to grasslands]<br>
<b>The Climate System Tipping Points Race: Risk of Amazon Rainforest
Collapse Takes the Lead: 1 of 3</b><br>
Mar 26, 2021<br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
In my last few videos I chatted about how our terrestrial biosphere
sink is failing. Presently, land vegetation absorbs about 30% of
anthropogenic carbon emissions, but with BAU (Business-as-Usual)
this number is expected to halve by 2040. The terrestrial biosphere
will tip over from a net carbon source to a net carbon sink. CO2
concentrations in the atmosphere will skyrocket as we head there
within a mere two decades. The reason is that further warming
increases plant respiration while decreasing plant photosynthesis.
Sources dominate sinks. <br>
<br>
Of course the Amazon Rainforest is the largest swath of tropical
rainforest on the planet. This forest drives a partially
self-sustaining regional climate and hydrological system, whereby
falling rainwater is taken up by rainforest, a lot of the water is
put back into the atmosphere by evapotranspiration, and the cycle
repeats over and over again. Thus, water is distributed over the
entire rainforest, but if the cycle is cut off at the start then the
entire rainforest can suffer severe drought. Thus, with slightly
more warming from climate system change, we are at great risk of the
sudden complete collapse of the entire rainforest. <br>
<br>
In this video series (3 parts) I focus on the Amazon Rainforest. I
chat about a new scientific review paper called “Carbon and Beyond:
The Biogeochemistry of Climate in a Rapidly Changing Amazon”. Most
discussions of the Amazon Rainforest focus solely on carbon cycles
and storage. This is incomplete; they need to consider the overall
Amazon system, and also examine CH4, N2O, black carbon, biogenic
volatile organic compounds, aerosols, evapotranspiration, and albedo
changes. The dynamic responses of all of the above to localized
stresses (fires, land-use changes, extreme weather events) and to
global stresses (warming, drying, El Niño Southern Oscillation) must
be examined to get a more complete understanding of the Amazon
System. <br>
<br>
When the overall system is studied, it becomes quite clear that the
CH4 and N2O changes are large enough to offset, and even actually
exceed the carbon sink of the Amazon Rainforest. This is actually
terrible news for the vitality of our planetary ecosystems and human
societies.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGeNcoqQlIw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGeNcoqQlIw</a><br>
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[complexity needs closer examination]<br>
MARCH 25, 2021<br>
<b>Revealing complex behavior of a turbulent plume at the calving
front of a Greenlandic glacier</b><br>
by Hokkaido University<br>
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The model of the study site in July 2017, showing the positions of
the sensors at different locations and depths. Credit: Evgeny A.
Podolskiy<br>
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in continuous
monitoring of a subglacial discharge plume, providing a deeper
understanding of the glacier-fjord environment.<br>
<br>
As marine-terminating glaciers melt, the fresh water from the
glacier interacts with the seawater to form subglacial discharge
plumes, or convective water flows. These turbulent plumes are known
to accelerate the melting and breakup (calving) of glaciers, drive
fjord-scale circulation and mixing, and create foraging hotspots for
birds. Currently, the scientific understanding of the dynamics of
subglacial plumes based on direct measurements is limited to
isolated instances.<br>
<br>
A team of scientists consisting of Hokkaido University's Assistant
Professor Evgeny A. Podolskiy and Professor Shin Sugiyama, and the
University of Tokyo's JSPS postdoctoral scholar Dr. Naoya Kanna have
pioneered a method for direct and continuous monitoring of plume
dynamics. Their findings were published by Springer-Nature in the
journal Communications Earth & Environment.<br>
<br>
Freshwater and marine water have very different densities due to the
salts dissolved in marine water. As a result of this density
contrast, when the meltwater—originating from the glacier
surface—flows down the cracks and emerges at the base of the
glacier, it starts upwelling causing the formation of subglacial
plumes. The rising plume entrains nutrient-rich, warmer water from
the deep that further melts the glacier ice. In light of the effects
of global warming and climate change, which have caused a massive
loss in the volume of glaciers, understanding how plumes behave and
evolve is crucial for predicting both glacier retreat and fjord
response.<br>
<br>
Helicopter flight over the studied subglacial discharge plume at the
calving front of Bowdoin Glacier in Greenland in July 2017. Credit:
Evgeny A. Podolskiy<br>
The scientists conducted the most comprehensive plume monitoring
campaign to date at Bowdoin Glacier (Kangerluarsuup Sermia),
Greenland. It involved a chain of subsurface sensors recording
oceanographic data directly at the calving front at different
depths. Additional observations were made by time-lapse cameras, a
seismometer, unmanned aerial vehicles, and etc. This
high-temporal-resolution dataset was then subjected to a thorough
analysis to identify connections, patterns, and trends.<br>
<br>
The study reveals that the dynamics of the plume and glacier-fjord
are far more complex than previously thought. It is intermittent in
nature and influenced by a diversity of factors, such as sudden
stratification changes and drainage of marginal lakes. For example,
the scientists observed the abrupt subglacial drainage of an
ice-dammed lake via the plume which had a pronounced impact on its
dynamics and was accompanied by a seismic tremor several hours long.
They also show that tides may influence the plumes, which have not
been accounted for in previous studies of Greenlandic glaciers.
Additionally, they suggest that the wind needs more attention as it
may also affect the structure of the subglacial plumes.<br>
<br>
From their results, the scientists conclude that their work is the
first step enabling researchers to transition from a snapshot view
of a plume to a continuously updated image. The identified processes
and their role in the glacier environments will have to be refined
in future studies via modelling and new observations.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2021-03-revealing-complex-behavior-turbulent-plume.html">https://phys.org/news/2021-03-revealing-complex-behavior-turbulent-plume.html</a><br>
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[Source mater]<br>
Evgeny A. Podolskiy et al, <br>
<b>Co-seismic eruption and intermittent turbulence of a subglacial
discharge plume revealed by continuous subsurface observations in
Greenland, </b><br>
Communications Earth & Environment (2021). DOI:
10.1038/s43247-021-00132-8<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00132-8">https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00132-8</a>
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[Monbiot rants: consumerism is the stifling of our imagination -
video]<br>
<b>How Smoked Salmon Is Destroying Our minds </b>| George Monbiot<br>
Mar 25, 2021<br>
Double Down News<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00132-8">https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00132-8</a><br>
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[darn]<br>
<b>Deadly Heat Waves Will Soon Be Common in South Asia, Even at 1.5
Degrees of Global Warming...</b><br>
By AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION - MARCH 26, 2021<br>
With almost one quarter of the world’s population living in South
Asia, the new study underlines the urgency of addressing climate
change.<br>
<br>
“The future looks bad for South Asia, but the worst can be avoided
by containing warming to as low as possible,” said Moetasim Ashfaq,
a computational climate scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
and corresponding author of the new study. “The need for adaptation
over South Asia is today, not in the future. It’s not a choice
anymore.”<br>
<br>
Earth has warmed by 1 degree Celsius since the start of the
Industrial Revolution, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change. On the current climate trajectory, it may reach 1.5
degrees Celsius of warming in 2040. This deadline leaves little time
for South Asian countries to adapt. “Only half a degree increase
from today is going to cause a widespread increase in these events,”
Ashfaq said.<br>
<br>
A hot region getting hotter<br>
People living in South Asia are especially vulnerable to deadly heat
waves because the area already experiences very hot, humid summers.
Much of the population live in densely populated cities without
regular access to air conditioning, and about 60% perform
agricultural work and can’t escape the heat by staying indoors.<br>
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Labor Heat Comparison India<br>
With 2 degrees Celsius of warming, the population of South Asia will
experience more than double the exposure to unsafe labor
temperatures (left) and will have almost three times the exposure to
temperatures that cause lethal heat stress (right). Credit: Saeed
et. al/ Geophysical Research Letters/AGU<br>
<br>
In the new study, the researchers used climate simulations and
projections of future population growth to estimate the number of
people who will experience dangerous levels of heat stress in South
Asia at warming levels of 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius. They estimated
the wet bulb temperature residents will experience, which is similar
to the heat index, as it takes into account humidity as well as
temperature. A wet bulb temperature of 32 degrees Celsius (89.6
degrees Fahrenheit) is considered to be the point when labor becomes
unsafe, and 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) is the limit
to human survivability – when the body can no longer cool itself.<br>
<br>
Their analysis suggests at 2 degrees of warming, the population’s
exposure to unsafe labor temperatures will rise more than two-fold,
and exposure to lethal temperatures rises 2.7 times, as compared to
recent years.<br>
<br>
Curbing warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius will likely cut that exposure
in half, but large numbers of people across South Asia will still
experience extreme temperatures. An increase in heat events that
create unsafe labor conditions are likely to occur in major crop
producing regions in India, such as West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh,
and in Pakistan in Punjab and Sindh. Coastal regions and urban
centers such as Karachi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Peshawar are
also likely to be heavily affected, according to the study.<br>
<br>
“Even at 1.5 degrees, South Asia will have serious consequences in
terms of heat stress,” Ashfaq said. “That’s why there is a need to
radically alter the current trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions.”<br>
<br>
The results differ from a similar study conducted in 2017, which
predicted that heat waves of lethal temperatures will occur in South
Asia toward the end of the 21st century. The researchers suspect the
earlier study is too conservative, as deadly heat waves have already
hit the region in the past. In 2015, large parts of Pakistan and
India experienced the fifth deadliest heat wave in the recorded
history, which caused about 3,500 heat-related deaths.<br>
<br>
“A policy framework is very much needed to fight against heat stress
and heat wave-related problems,” said T.V. Lakshmi Kumar, an
atmospheric scientist at India’s SRM Institute of Science and
Technology who was not involved in the work. “India has already
committed to reduce emissions to combat climate change issues.”<br>
<br>
Reference: “Deadly heat stress to become commonplace across South
Asia already at 1.5°C of global warming” by Fahad Saeed,
Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner and Moetasim Ashfaq, 10 March 2021,
Geophysical Research Letters.<br>
DOI: 10.1029/2020GL091191<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://scitechdaily.com/deadly-heat-waves-will-soon-be-common-in-south-asia-even-at-1-5-degrees-of-global-warming/">https://scitechdaily.com/deadly-heat-waves-will-soon-be-common-in-south-asia-even-at-1-5-degrees-of-global-warming/</a><br>
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[psychological awareness of nature - video]<br>
<b>Forgetting Nature</b><br>
Ross Harrison - Mar 16, 2021<br>
‘Forgetting Nature’: Peter Kahn offers warning in short documentary
film<br>
The documentary film is brief but its message is powerful: We humans
are losing our connection to the natural world, at our great peril.<br>
<br>
“In some sense, we think we are the most advanced culture — we take
such pride in technology and advancement,” says Peter Kahn,
University of Washington professor in the Department of Psychology
and the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences.<br>
<br>
“But in some other ways, we are more distant from the natural world
than any culture has been. Potentially also more distant from the
human spirit.”<br>
<br>
Kahn’s words are featured in “Forgetting Nature,” a new short
documentary by British-based filmmaker Ross Harrison that will begin
streaming for free on March 17.<br>
<br>
The film, production notes say, is “an urgent call to examine the
effects of technology on our experiences, and the way wild nature is
being squeezed out of our lives.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.forgettingnature.com">http://www.forgettingnature.com</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEKrTa_z-zk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEKrTa_z-zk</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://environment.uw.edu/news/2021/03/forgetting-nature-peter-kahn-offers-warning-in-short-documentary-film/">https://environment.uw.edu/news/2021/03/forgetting-nature-peter-kahn-offers-warning-in-short-documentary-film/</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
March 28, 2001 </b></font><br>
<p>March 28, 2001: President George W. Bush says his administration
will not honor the Kyoto Protocol.<br>
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href="http://archives.nbclearn.com/portal/site/k-12/flatview?cuecard=238">http://archives.nbclearn.com/portal/site/k-12/flatview?cuecard=238</a><br>
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